(11 February 2019) – The number of newly-born enterprises in the European Union as a proportion of the total number of active EU enterprises stood at 9.8% in 2016.
This rate was slightly higher than the corresponding figure in 2015 (9.6%).
The birth rates were above 16% in Lithuania (18.8%), Malta (16.4%) and Latvia (16.2%) and were close to the EU average in Spain, France and the Netherlands.
At the other end of the scale, the lowest enterprise birth rates were in Greece (4.5%) and Belgium (6.2%).